STOP IT: AliBaba Big TCPA Loser After Making Absurd Argument that Maybe a Different AliBaba Made Harassing Robocalls

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A consumer received an allegedly unwanted call from “Alex from Alibaba.” So he sued Alibaba.

Alibaba’s literal response:  it could have been any Alibaba, how do you know it was us?

In Rossi v. Alibaba, 2026 WL 810254 (N.D. Cal. March 24, 2025) the defendant tried to escape liability by claiming any number of entities named Alibaba could have been the Alibaba that made the calls at issue.

The court was not having it.

The central issue is the Plaintiff alleged the calls came from the defendant Alibaba. That there are other Alibabas in the world doesn’t change that fact.

It was an absurd argument. A real desperation play. And Alibaba’s motion was dealt with swiftly and directly.

Little surprise the court also denied Alibaba’s hypertechnical alternative relief of trying to strike an injunction prayer because it didn’t align with an injunction request earlier in the complaint. Good luck guys.

The Court also found Plaintiff had standing to seek an injunction since Alibaba allegedly “conducts systematic prerecorded calling campaigns.” This is highly unusual as injunctive relief of this sort is commonly stricken from TCPA complaints.  Translation: the Court is pissed at Alibaba, probably because of its bad argument that a different Alibaba made the calls.

Just so silly.

Anyhoo, LCOC IV. Soon. News. Big. Wow. Be there.

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